INTERVIEWS: Akon: “America was never built for black people”

Akon: “America was never built for black people”

The Senegalese-American recording artist talks frankly about US race relations, “rebranding” Africa, and his music.Akon talks to Al Jazeera about running his musical career as a business; his projects – both philanthropic and artistic; singing songs for peace and whether he thinks it can really make an impact; and being an African in the US.

In the interview, Akon talks about being a businessman, and how that’s very important in the field of entertainment. He says that even though he can perform on stage, he’s a businessman before being an entertainer.

These Are The 65 Titles Netflix Will Be Removing On January 1st

These Are The 65 Titles Netflix Will Be Removing On January 1st

A few of your favorite films and shows won’t be making it into the new year.

The holiday season has came and is all but gone —  just like a sizable chunk of Netflix‘s catalog in a few days. On January 1st, 65 total movies and shows will be removed from the the companies streaming service. While 65 titles might seem minuscule in comparison to the vast collection of movies and shows Netflix has to offer, it is the quality of the titles, such as Rocky I – V, Bad Boys, Gladiator, Hitch that make this cut weigh so heavily.

Be sure to check out the following films and television shows on Netflix before their January 1st expiration date:

12 Angry Men

A Mighty Heart

A River Runs Through It

Backdraft

Bad Boys

Batman (1989)

Beethoven

Beethoven’s 2nd

Beverly Hills Cop

Big Trouble in Little China

Boyz n the Hood

Braveheart

Can’t Buy Me Love

Carrie

D3: The Mighty Ducks

Duck Soup

Far and Away

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Seasons 1–2

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Gladiator

Good Burger

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Happy Gilmore

Hitch

Hotel Rwanda

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Kiss the Girls

Kramer vs. Kramer

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Love Actually

Manhattan

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

My Girl

My Girl 2

Red Dawn (1984)

Rocky I–V

Roman Holiday

Saved!

Scary Movie 2

Spaceballs

Stargate

Taylor Swift: Journey to Fearless

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan!

The Brady Bunch Movie

The Breakfast Club

The Chronicles of Riddick

The Company Men

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

The Grapes of Wrath

The Longest Yard (1974)

The Mighty Ducks

The Original Kings of Comedy

The Parent Trap (1998)

The Phantom of the Opera (1989)

The Usual Suspects

The Wedding Planner

Titanic

Tombstone

Transformers: Generation 1, Seasons 1–4

Turner and Hooch

You’ve Got Mail

It’s  looking like a Mighty Ducks weekend for Khari Clarke. Follow him on Twitter (@KINGCLARKEIII).

NEWS: Former Nike Employee Pleads ‘Guilty’ to selling stolen samples

Former Nike Employee Pleads ‘Guilty’ to selling stolen samples

“DON’T Do It”

This past Wednesday (12/17) 33-year-old Kyle K. Yamaguchi of Portland, Oregon pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to conspiracy to transport, receive and sell stolen goods for shipping 42 stolen Nike sneakers to a buyer in Florida in April 2013 for $62,000, according to OregonLive.

Yamaguchi worked as a Nike promotional product manager between July 2006 and January 2012. It was during that time that he ordered sample sneakers to the company’s headquarters and arranged to sell them to 35-year-old Jason Keating of Fort Meyers, Florida. Upon Keating parting ways with the company in January 2012, he then enlisted his successor, Tung Ho, as the plug and acted as the middle man between the two.

According to the formal indictment, Keating paid $679,650 for more than 630 pairs of shoes that Yamaguchi and Ho stole from Nike between September 2012 to March 2014.

Yamaguchi received a percentage of the shoe sale profits from Keating, who offered them to other collectors and small retailers across the country, prosecutors said.Police seized nearly 1,950 pairs of Nike sneakers from Ho’s home during a raid last March, according to a criminal complaint. He admitted to investigators that he had stolen hundreds of pairs of Nike Look See shoes and either sold them on eBay or through Yamaguchi, the complaint said.Ho claimed he made $15,000 selling the sneakers on eBay, the complaint said.According to a federal search warrant, Ho ordered 46 pairs of LeBron James branded sneakers in May 2012 that the company couldn’t account for. In February of this year, investigators found one of the pairs of sneakers suspected of being stolen by Ho, a limited “MVP” edition of LeBron IX shoes, advertised on eBay for $20,000.

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-Jamaal Fisher (@jamaalfisher)